The Biden administration is stepping up its fight to curtail the burgeoning fentanyl epidemic that is sweeping the United States and expanding far beyond the U.S. borders.
Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram informed House lawmakers during an oversight hearing Thursday that the federal agency recently opened a lab in the border city of El Paso, Texas, called the Joint Intrepid Lab.
Scientists can determine what precursor ingredients are used and connect the dots as to which Chinese companies' chemicals were being used by which cartel and where drug smugglers were moving the product into the United States. The DEA has expanded its global reach to match the cartels' expansion. The agency has launched three teams: one to track Jalisco, a second to track Sinaloa, and a third that focuses solely on money laundering between the Mexican cartels and the Chinese.
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